House in Yamasaki, Hyogo residence, Japan

House in Yamasaki Hyogo residence, Japan

This is a house in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture for a couple and their two children. The construction site is a part of a place surrounded by mountains and the sky is overcast most of the days.

Atelier Shigou, Toyota Building: Gallery / Meeting

This is for the private cram school located in Toyota city be home to Toyota. It is sometime to be used a gallery or a meeting room. Structurally, the building consists of some cedar plates which are arranged at intervals of 30 cm.

House in Tamatsu – Osaka Residence, Japan

The house is placed at urban district and a small plot of only 43.21sqm in Osaka, Japan. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.

Aron R&D Center: Toukai Hexagon Japan

Aron R&D Center: Toukai Hexagon Japan

Aron is a company manufacturing plastic goods, for example pipes for building facilities, objects for elders care, some materials for other products and so on. The actual name of the company is “Aron Kasei”.

Grotte Des Fleurs: Nagoya Flowershop Japan

To design from the limited shelf space, to allow the coexistence of people, flowers and equipment, and at the same time maximize the storage space that doesn’t conflict with the movement of clients and staff, we came up with this layout.

Liaison Cubique – Nagoya Restaurant Japan

For a traditional Japanese restaurant in the underground commercial space under Nagoya Station, kotaro horiuchi started by analyzing the time transversal components of architecture, themes such as metric, gradation, rhythm and transparency, giving them a contemporary twist.

Australia House Japan, Niigata Gallery

Australia House in Niigata Prefecture

Australia House is a gallery, studio and atelier in the ‘snow country’ of Niigata Prefecture, approximately three hours north of Tokyo. The building replaces a previous structure which collapsed in a powerful aftershock on March 12, 2011.

Yurihonjo City Cultural Center, Kadare Building

Kadare Cultural Center. This is a complex institution composed of Multipurpose Transforming Theater, Library and Community Center. Originally, this project had two sites sandwiching a road.

Mortuary in Japan, Japanese Tree Burial Buildings

Setting the problem: Japan has an extremely high number of elderly and the busy urbanization of the after war years created a substantial problem of where to locate the deceased, and how to correctly deal with them.

House of Maple Leaves, Karuizawa Residence

This is a villa situated about an hour’s rapid train ride from Tokyo in a mountain resort of Karuizawa, Japan. It is basically a wooden structure with the peripheral balconies in steel

Utsukushigaoka West Elementary School, Aoba

This is an elementary school project to be layered by different kinds of learning and playing spaces vertically like “a small hill”. The scheme is to create a rich environment in which children freely gather to “a hill” and discover their preferred place learning together.

Kichijyoji Nest Japan, Inogashira Park

The site is located on south-west area of on Kichijyoji train station facing a beautiful Zelkova street which runs through Inogashira Park in a direction perpendicular to Inogashira street which is one of major streets in Tokyo.

Park House Kichijoji Oikos – Musashino Residence

There is a peculiar “system” which is built through a process of constructing a condominium (planning-designing-constructing-selling) in a competitive market. I had proceeded this project by undoing the process and re-defining collective housing with a ecological point of view discussing about life scenes of a small family.

House in Takada, Jyoetsu City, Niigata

This bungalow house is 110㎡ in Jyoetsu city, Niigata prefecture, about 200km toward to the northern direction from Tokyo. The regional characteristics are the temperature below zero degree and the snow depth exceeds 2m during winter.